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Kirkland Office:
12525 131st Court NE
Kirkland, WA 98034
tel (425) 823-4841
fax (425) 823-3805

Bainbridge
Island Office:
755 Winslow Way E,
Suite #302
Bainbridge Isl, WA 98110
tel (206) 842-5667
fax (206) 842-2861

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NEW CARISSA Oil spill and grounding Coos Bay, Oregon POLARIS APPLIED SCIENCES, Inc. (POLARIS) was created in 1998 from the merger of three highly successful companies with a broad range of capabilities in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial oil and chemical spill response. POLARIS’s scientific support staff for oil spill response includes internationally recognized leaders in shoreline treatment operations, shoreline geomorphology, pre-spill planning, technical training of spill responders, and environmental assessment. Our scientists offer a combined total of over 60 years of response experience from more than 100 spills and groundings, and have provided clients worldwide with spill planning, spill response, scientific support, natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), and environmental restoration services.

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Current Projects:
WESTWOOD ANETTE, Oil Spill, Squamish, BC, Canada; Scientific and Technical Support, and Environmental Impact Assessment SPERCHIOS, Coral Grounding, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico; Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment CASITAS, Coral Grounding, Hawaiian Islands near Pearl and Hermes Atoll; Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment CN Derailment, Oil Spill, Wabamun Lake, AB, Canada; Scientific and Technical Support CAPE FLATTERY, Coral Grounding, Honolulu, HI; Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment SELENDANG AYU, Oil Spill, Unalaska, AK; Scientific and Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment TORM MARY, Oil Spill, Neches River, Port Neches, TX; Scientific and Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment BOW MARINER, Oil Spill, Portsmouth, VA; Scientific and Technical Support and Natural Resource Damage Assessment MICRONESIAN HERITAGE Coral Damage Assessment, Yap; Scientific and Technical Support, Natural Resource Damage Assessment KYOWA VIOLET Coral Damage Assessment, Yap; Scientific and Technical Support, Natural Resource Damage Assessment M/V EVER REACH Oil Spill, Charleston, SC; Scientific and Technical Support for cleanup operations and Natural Resource Damage Assessment QATAR Petroleum: State-wide Oil Spill Contingency Plan EXXON Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project: Preparation of Corporate Plan and five facility Oil Spill Response Plans SAKHALIN ISLAND, Russia: Preparation of Sakahlin Energy Corporate Plan and seven offshore and onshore facility Oil Spill Response Plans
Recent Publications:
Lewis, R.R. III, A.B. Hodgson and G.S. Mauseth. 2005. Project facilitates the natural reseeding of mangrove forests (Florida). Ecol. Rest. 23(4):276-277. Dickins, D.F., Jones, V., Bradford, J., Liberty, L., Gibson, G., Hirst, W., Zabilansky, L., Owens, E.H. and Lane, J., 2005. Testing Ground Penetrating Radar and Ethane Gas Sampling to Detect Oil Under Ice. Proceedings 28th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Programme (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Ottawa, ON, 799-824. Lamarche, A., Owens, E.H. and Sergy, G.A., 2005. Development of a SCAT Data Management Manual. Proceedings 28th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Prgoramme (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Ottawa, ON, 473-490. Owens, E.H., Dickins, D.F. and Sergy, G.A., 2005. The Behavior and Documentation of Oil Spilled on Snow- and Ice-Covered Shorelines. Proceedings International Oil Spill Conference, Amer. Petr. Institute Pub. No. I 4718B, Washington DC, 513-519. Owens, E.H., Parter-Hall, H.A., Mauseth, G.S., Graham, A., Allard, T., Reimer, P.D., Engles, J.W., Lehmann, S., Whitney, J., Penland, S., Williams, C. and Wooley C., 2005. Shoreline and Surveillance Surveys on the M/V Selendang Ayu Spill Response, Unalaska Island, Alaska. Proc. 28th Arctic Marine Oilspill Programme (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa ON, 509-525. Owens, E.H. and Sergy, G.A., 2005. Time Series Observations of Marsh Recovery and Pavement Persistence at Three METULA Spill Sites after 30 1/2 Years. Proceedings 28th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Programme (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Ottawa, ON, 463-472. Owens, E.H., Sergy, G.A. and Harper, J.R., 2005. The Behavior and Treatment of Orimulsion Bitumen Stranded on Pebble, Cobble or Impermeable Substrate Shorelines. Documentation of Oil Spilled on Snow- and Ice-Covered Shorelines. Proceedings International Oil Spill Conference, Amer. Petr. Institute Pub. No. I 4718B, Washington DC, 919-924. Owens, E.H. and Sergy, G.A., 2004. Accelerating the Natural Removal of Oil on Shorelines: Part 2 - Tilling or Mixing Techniques. Proceedings 27th Arctic Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa ON, 685-702. Owens, E.H. and Sergy, G.A., 2004. A SCAT Manual for Arctic Regions and Cold Climates. Proceedings 27th Arctic Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa ON, 703-712. Challenger, G.E., G.S. Mauseth, E.H. Owens, R.F. Campbell, M. Macrander and D. Doty. 2003. Integration of Response, Restoration, and Enhancement in a Northwest United States Salmonid Stream Following a Gasoline Spill. Proceedings 2003 International Oil Spill Conference, Amer. Petr. Institute Publ. No. , Washington, DC.